Profiles women reformers and activists from the president of Liberia to an AIDS activist in Uganda, from people working with sex slaves in Cambodia to those worrying about warming temperatures and the damage it is causing in the Canadian Arctic, and recounts the author's visits with these women
"In 2006, Mariane Pearl set off on a very personal round-the-world voyage for Glamour magazine. Widowed four years earlier when her husband, Daniel, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was murdered by Islamic extremists. Mariane wanted to prove that love and courage are stronger forces than hatred and ignorance. In this book, Mariane shares her profiles of ordinary women who are changing the world in extraordinary ways--along with previously unpublished photographs and details from the first year of her travels."--Page 4 of cover
Preface / Cindi Leive -- Foreword / Angelina Jolie -- Introduction / Mariane Pearl -- 1. Cambodia: a sex slave's liberation -- 2. Cuba: marching for freedom -- 3. Liberia: Madame President -- 4. Mexico: justice gets a voice -- 5. France: no longer invisible -- 6. New York: a leader for lost children -- 7. Hong Kong: the conscience of a country -- 8. Canada: hope for a melting world -- 9. Uganda: the AIDS orphan turned healer -- 10. Morocco: giving outcast moms a future -- 11. Colombia: a child of war, building peace -- 12. Puerto Rico: a woman, an island, a triumph -- Afterword -- If you want to help -- Acknowledgments
Notes
obscured text on back cover due to sticker inherent cut off text leaf 2-3, 182-183
